So now that fourth year is upon us, I have been working on my proposal for the coming year. It’s been a bit stressful but I’m getting there. The final draft isn’t finished yet but I do plan on posting it up here when I’m done (because once it’s online, for all to see, there is no going back).

Along with with writing this proposal I have been looking for some potentially very useful books for my research, although without much luck. This is the part when what you are reading turns from blog post to cry for help. Of the fourteen books I unearthed I only have access to five, which is not a particularly great ratio. If anyone reading this could help me out it would be wonderful, whether you lend me a copy or buy it as a present, either way I’m good. Click on titles and it’ll take you to Amazon, how convenient.

Seven Hundred Penguins
Faber & Faber: Eighty Years Of Book Cover Design by Joseph Connolly
Book Design by Andrew Haslam
New Book Design by Roger Fawcett-Tang and Caroline Roberts
By It’s Cover: Modern American Book Design by Ned Drew and Paul Spencer Sternberger
Fully Booked: Cover Art And Design For Books by Matthias Hübner
Notes On Book Design by Derek Birdsall
Book-Art: Innovation In Book Design by Charlotte Rivers
Children’s Book Covers: Great Book Jacket And Cover Design by Alan Powers

I did manage to get Front Cover: Great Book Jacket And Cover Design also by Alan Powers, Designing Books: Practice And Theory by Jost Hochuli and Robin Kinross, On Book Design by Richard Hendel and Classic Book Jackets: The Design Legacy Of George Salter by Thomas S. Hansen from the library which are already being put to good use but, y’know, the more the merrier and all that.

I also already own the fantastic Penguin By Design: A Cover Story 1935-2005 by Phil Baines which is has provided bucketloads if inspiration in the past.

Anyone who wishes to help me complete this wee collection will shoot up quite a few spaces in my list of favourite people ever. And anyone who can guess my theme wins a prize, it’s a toughie but I reckon someone out there can do it.